The Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems (C-IMAGE) was a research consortium of 19 U.S. and international partners focused on effects of oil spills on marine environments. The C-IMAGE consortium completed an unprecedented study of the Deepwater Horizon blowout of 2010 through funding from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). The overarching objective of C-IMAGE was to advance understanding of marine blowouts as response agencies and production companies were underprepared to deal with the unique challenges of Deepwater Horizon. Data is made freely available to ensure society is better prepared to mitigate any future occurrences.
Projects from C-IMAGE I included ecosystem modeling based on biological, chemical, and physical data sets, marine resource assessments of ichthyoplankton, fish, and marine mammals, oil and dispersant toxicology, simulating high-pressure environments and their effects on fluids, and sediment analysis of oil-affected areas of the sea floor.
C-IMAGE II focused on Six Tasks covering a range of research areas including deep-ocean environments, sediment deposition, and plankton and fish species toxicity.
C-IMAGE III focused on GoMRI Research Themes 2 and 3: chemical evolution and biological degradation of the petroleum/dispersant systems and subsequent interaction with coastal, open-ocean, and deep-water ecosystems (Theme 2); and environmental effects of the petroleum/dispersant system on the sea floor, water column, coastal waters, beach sediments, wetlands, marshes, and organisms; and the science of ecosystem recovery (Theme 3).
The University of South Florida served as the host institution for C-IMAGE under the direction of Principle Investigator Dr. Steven Murawski, Assistant Director Sherryl Gilbert and Chief Science Officer Dr. David Hollander. The data in this repository contains the work of USF researchers. To view data from across GRIIDC’s research groups, please visit GRIIDC’s dataset monitoring webpage.
Submissions from 2019
Input, output and complete run files for the Atlantis ecosystem model IXTOC oil spill simulations from Campeche Bay Atlantis model, Cameron Ainsworth
Input, output and complete run files for the Atlantis ecosystem model Deepwater Horizon oil spill simulations including fish and invertebrate effects, Cameron Ainsworth and Lindsey N. Dornberger
Mollusk and meiofauna communities data collected onboard the R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB0517 in the northwestern margin of Cuba from 2017-05-13 to 2017-05-23, Maickel Armenteros
Bulk density/porewater data from sediment cores collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0815 and WB-0915 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-16 to 2015-10-01, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Bulk density/porewater data from sediment cores collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0814 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2014-08-14 to 2014-08-28, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Bulk density/porewater data from sediment cores collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0915 and R/V Justo Sierra cruise JS-0815 in the southern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-07-30 to 2015-09-29, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Photographs of sediment cores collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0517 off the coast of Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-05-11 to 2017-05-23, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0717 and WB-1217 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-07-19 to 2017-12-05, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0812 and WB-1012 and R/V Pelican cruise PE12-22 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2012-04-09 to 2012-10-18, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0813 and WB-1405 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2013-08-15 to 2013-09-27, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0815 and WB-0915 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-16 to 2015-10-01, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0911, WB-1125 and WB-1114 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2011-02-20 to 2011-09-27, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-2010-08, WB-1109 and WB-1110 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2010-08-11 to 2010-12-09, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0814 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2014-08-14 to 2014-08-28, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0816 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-08-05 to 2016-09-09, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment core photographs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0915 and R/V Justo Sierra cruise JS-0815 in the southern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-07-30 to 2015-09-29, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Justo Sierra cruise JS-0815 in the southern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-01 to 2015-08-06, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0812 and WB-1012 and R/V Pelican cruise PE12-22 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2012-04-09 to 2012-10-18, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0911, WB-1125 and WB-1114 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2011-02-20 to 2011-09-26, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-2010-08, WB-1109 and WB-1110 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2010-08-11 to 2010-12-09, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0813 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2013-08-20 to 2013-08-21, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0814 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2014-08-14 to 2014-08-19, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0812 and WB-1012 and R/V Pelican cruise PE12-22 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2012-04-09 to 2012-10-18, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0815 and WB-0915 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-16 to 2015-10-01, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
